Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
People:Donate a few bucks to Mefeedia if you use thumb generator.Interesting stuff... pretty hardcore.sullOn 11/29/05, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm impressed! keep on crunching and thanks! petertheman wrote: OK, Here's an overview of the Mefeedia thumbnail feature.1)

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-30 Thread andrew michael baron
One way for you to generate your thumbnails for layout might be to simply upload your images into to a single directory and then use a relevant system tag to determine the file name for each image. I don't use Blogger, but I just had a look at their template code (because I know a lot of people

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-30 Thread andrew michael baron
Two more notes on this subject of creating your own thumbs:#1 If you didnt want to hunt down the item number, you could always just name your image with the same text that is used for the title, and use the $BlogItemTitle$ tag instead.#2 With the hovering metadata example below, I meant to

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Bill Streeter
Yeah I agree with Josh, besides that's kinda the point of aggregators. You can subscribe to the video blogs you want and when you view them through an aggregator like FireAnt the web design becomes much less important. As far as the network goes, we have a network, its a social network, which

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Back to the point though... Rocketboom uses MovableType, which provides excellent control over the template design. You will have to learn a little bit of code beyond HTML to do what you want, but its pretty easy to get the hang of and very well documented. -Josh On 11/29/05, Bill Streeter

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Amanda Congdon
Hey Andreas, Did you try clicking view 2 on the top of the archive page? We have two different ways to view our archives, one with just the thumbnails and another with story links included for searchability. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:15:26 +0100, Amanda Congdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try clicking view 2 on the top of the archive page? We have two different ways to view our archives, one with just the thumbnails and another with story links included for searchability. Nope, I didn't know

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Steve Watkins
Is it possible to create a system that doesnt need to download the entire video in order to create a thumbnail, but only a little bit of the start of the file? It seems a shame that we can start watching some video formats before they have finished downloading, but that thumbnail generation

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Steve Watkins wrote: Is it possible to create a system that doesnt need to download the entire video in order to create a thumbnail, but only a little bit of the start of the file? Here is some wild thinking, that may be completely off-base. I believe HTTP requests can use a range, so in

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Markus Sandy
question: if i have a quicktime file with a poster frame,  will mefeedia use that frame as the thumb? if not, is it possible to make it do that? i would like to control which frame is used as a thumb Pete Prodoehl wrote: Steve Watkins wrote: Is it possible to create a system

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread petertheman
OK, Here's an overview of the Mefeedia thumbnail feature. 1) It doesn't generate thumbs for *all* types of movies. For most movies it does, including Flash movies, Windows media movies, you name it. There are some codecs that it can't handle, unfortunately, but it gets most of them. 2) It takes

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread petertheman
PS: Marcus, we're doing number crunching and analyzing ourselves these days.. results still pending. :) Cheers! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life.

[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread petertheman
with all video formats, but is it some sort of theoretical possiblity at least? Yep, it's theoretically possible. The amount of development work would probably be high though, so then it ends up being cheaper paying for a few more servers, in the short term :) It's all a balance about where to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Markus Sandy
i'm impressed! keep on crunching and thanks! petertheman wrote: OK, Here's an overview of the Mefeedia thumbnail feature. 1) It doesn't generate thumbs for *all* types of movies. For most movies it does, including Flash movies, Windows media movies, you name it. There are some codecs